“The fourth factor is the global terror epidemic – terror contagion. Terrorism in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Africa spreads its cancerous effect destroying lives and property.
“The fifth factor is the collapse of public education. Normal schools that should have provided meaningful education to our children have collapsed.
“Then we have the massive unemployment as the sixth factor.
“As the seventh factor, we have the proliferation of arms and unguarded boarders. It has become easy for arms to move around our country, so accessible that our borders are porous and as such extremists find it easier to pick up guns and ammunition to fight.
“The eighth factor is the under-development of the North by previous administrations.”
Senator Sani also identified human rights abuse and extra-judicial killings as likely factors.
“The ninth factor is human right abuses and extra-judicial killings. This is another very important factor…The root cause of this insurgency was triggered by the killing of a leader out of the confines of the law and since then, we never knew peace.
“Economic collapse of the North is the tenth. Most of our industries have closed down. Our economy is as arid as our weather.
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